PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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C.O. 882
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
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The emigra-
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ceding six months, together with the names and numbers of such deserters; and the Protector of Immigrants shall keep all such returns, and shall at the end of each year make an abstract of the numbers, of the increase and decrease of such immi- grants employed as aforesaid, births, deaths, absences, and desertions.
CHAPTER IV.
INTRODUCTION OF LABOURERS FROM BRITISH INDIA.
34. The Governor may appoint a fit and proper tion agents. person to be emigration agent, to superintend the emigration of labourers from any of the ports or places from which emigrants may be introduced into this Colony.
The sub- officers of the emigra- tion officer.
Intending employers
to make requisitions.
Requisition- ist to prove his status.
Refusal of
35. The Governor, upon the recommendation of the emigration agent in any port or place, may appoint such fit and proper persons as may be neces- sary to be clerks, interpreters, or otherwise to be employed in the work of the emigration office of this Colony, in that port or place.
36. Persons in Mauritius wishing to introduce or engage immigrants from India, shall forward to the Protector of Immigrants a requisition in terms of Schedule No. 3 hereunto annexed, either for male or female immigrants to be engaged in India, to serve the requisitionists, or for male or female immigrants to be allotted to requisitionists in Mauritius.
37. Each person aforesaid shall, when required by the Protector of Immigrants, satisfy the Protector of Immigrants that he is the owner or lessee of an estate, or of an establishment requiring the labourers to be sent for, or that he is the duly authorised agent of such owner.
39. The Protector shall be empowered, subject to applications. the control of the Governor, to refuse to forward any requisition for immigrants in case he shall see reasonable ground for such refusal; provided that every such refusal and the grounds thereof shall be communicated to the requisitionist, upon the receipt of his requisition or so soon thereafter as possible, and also to the Governor.
Requisition
to be in triplicato.
Wages and allowances.
39. Every such requisition shall be made in tripli- cate, and if allowed, one copy thereof shall be re- tained by the Protector of Immigrants; another, signed or initialed by him, and bearing the date of its registration, shall be feturned by him to the re- quisitionist; and the third shall be forwarded by the Protector of Immigrants to the emigration agent for Mauritius, at the port of India whence the immi- grants are required.
40. The Protector shall from time to time frame, subject to the approval of the Governor, a Govern- ment scale of the minimum of wages and allowances which it shall be lawful to propose to intending emigrants from India, and which, on being ap proved by the Governor, shall be published in the Government Gazette, and shall be communicated to the emigration agents in India for their guidance.
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Provided that said wages shall in no case be less than 88. sterling per calendar month for each male immigrant above 18 years of age; and the said allowance shall in no case be less than the follow- ing :-
Rice, one pound and a half Dholl, half & pound
Salt fish, half a pound
Ghee or oil, four ounces
Salt, four ounces
per diem.
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week.
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When any requisition shall be made for male immigrants under 18 years of age, or for female immigrants, the minimum rates of wages and allow. ances to be proposed to them shall be fixed by the Protector.
less than
the Govern-
41. No wages or allowances shall be proposed to No wages, any immigrant lower than the Government scale for &c. to be the time being; and in all cases in which no rate of wages or of allowances shall be specially stipulated ment scale. in the requisition, the Government scale shall be deemed to be the rate proposed by the requisitionist.
42. Every such requisition shall be accompanied Requisition by a bond in the form and terms of Schedule No. 4, to be accom- hereto annexed, which shall be signed by the panied by requisitionist and two sureties, on whose sufficiency the Protector of Immigrants for the time being shall determine.
bond.
43. Every such requisition shall remain in force Requisition for the period of 12 months, and no longer, from its to remain date to the date of any contract passed in India in in force execution thereof.
Provided that any requisitionist may stipulate that his requisition shall remain in force for any shorter period, to be specified by him.
12 months.
44. Any requisition may be cancelled, by the Withdrawal requisitionist subscribing in the Immigration Office, a of requisi- withdrawal in the form of Schedule No. 5, hereunto tions, annexed. Provided always, that such withdrawal shall not invalidate anything already done by the emigration agent in pursuance of the requisition previously to the receipt of such withdrawal.
45. Every immigrant leaving India to come to Immigrants Mauritius for hire, shall, before leaving Indis, either leaving
Mauritius to
be engaged to an employer named in his contract, India for or shall be taken to be bound to serve an employer be engaged. to whom he shall be allotted by the Protector of Immigrants, on his arrival at Mauritius.
46. Every such immigrant shall, in India, sign or Contract to mark a contract either in the terms and form of be signed or Schedule No. 6 or in the form of Schedule No. 7 the immi
marked by hereto annexed, according as it may be necessary grant in for him to enter into a special contract, to serve an India. individual employer therein named, or a contract with the Government of Mauritius, to serve any employer to whom he may be allotted by this Government; and, in either case the contract to be so signed shall, inter alia, bind him to a service not exceeding five
years.
47. In all cases in which advances of wages shall Advance of be demanded in India by emigrants before their wages.
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